Aam Aadmi’s missteps
A month after it stormed to power in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party has tarnished its image by taking three false steps. First, its law minister Somnath Bharti and women…
The ideas people
It’s not like any of us here in Pakistan are strangers to heartbreak, but even so it was particularly saddening. In a recent article, columnist Chris Cork wrote about what…
State on trial
Musharraf’s long-delayed trial for his 2007 coup finally began before a Special Court on December 24. Six hearings have been held in the one month that has passed since then,…
What’s the incentive?
The story goes that towards the end of the 18th century, England embarked on a policy of transporting convicts to Australia through publicly funded but privately provided transportation services. A…
Let glory be the CJ’s
CHIEF Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry seems determined to end his long and eventful tenure in a blaze of glory. In the process, there is hope that at least some of the…
Our mental health
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US, whose motto is: ‘Saving Lives, Protecting People’, the term mental health is usually used with reference to…
Education challenge
The refusal of Laado to accompany her mother to the paddy fields during the harvesting season because of homework is an encouraging sign in a society where education for girls…
The higher command
We need services’ integration, and we need it now. We also need to remove some anomalies that tend to slur the army’s image unnecessary. Current military minds than mine can…
The expendables
When there is excess labour, compared to capital, the price (or wage) that labour can command, in a capitalist market-based system, will be low. There is no guarantee that the…
What remains sacred?
Spurning advice not to return to Pakistan and face a myriad number of legal problems, Musharraf successfully managed, by default, to put the army as a whole into the dock.…
